Argument about the design of the eye goes back before Darwin. Darwin's answer was frequent small modifications. This has been amplified by Nilssen and Pelger. The argument is incomplete, but adequate to buttress the faith of a materialist.

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2. Rennie, J. 2002. 15 answers to creationist nonsense. Scientific American 287: 78–85. At https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/15-answers-to-creationist/
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_the_eye
4. Nilsson, D-E and S. Pelger. 1994. A pessimistic estimate of the time required for an eye to evolve. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 256: 53–58. At http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/256/1345/53 or http://sci-hub.tw/http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/256/1345/53
5. Dawkins, R. 1987. The Blind Watchmaker. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. At http://dbanach.com/dawkins1.htm or https://terebess.hu/keletkultinfo/The_Blind_Watchmaker.pdf
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9. Smith, M. R. and J. B. Caron. 2010. Primitive soft-bodied cephalopods from the Cambrian. Nature 465: 427–428. At https://www.nature.com/articles/nature09068 or https://sci-hub.tw/https://www.nature.com/articles/nature09068 (Accepted draft at https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/32368/1/Nectocaris.pdf)

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